Present

Seeing as christmas is coming up, thought I would upload this icon. You would be wrong in thinking this is an iOS app icon...its for an OSX application I am producing. This icon wont make it into v1, but I sort of prepped a lot of stuff in advance (roadmap!). I find that its best to do all icon work in one go...if I do stuff then return to it 4 months later it tends to look like its not part of the same set. (cause Im crap? maybe).

All those gradients on the bow did my nut in... fun though. Paper texture came out ok, tried to give it a shiney gloss effect with a sort of Spot UV media glyphs which hint at the function behind this icon. (love touches of Spot UV in actual print work :)).